check out a sign it airship that looks like something out of an old fashioned science fix movie. adam housley has had a look at it live in l.a. what do you think. >> reporter: it's a throwback to the days of those huge air ships. what is different this time is it's healy um and they've created something here that is entirely new all together. inside a southern california hangar built during world war ii floats a craft that could revolutionize airtrans port. >> it's very simple, it takes off, lands, and it goes physically anywhere with no infrastructure. >> reporter: it's not a blimp or a balloon but a next generation aircraft made of aluminum and carbon tpaoeurb. it can hold more than 60 tons of tkarg go has a range of 32 # hundred miles and doesn't need a landing strip. >> this vehicle could go there not have to touchdown off-load the cargo and go on. with the internal compartment of this vehicle there is no itemizing the load. we can rearrange the load internal for the vehicle while it's moving. >> reporter: this is called a proof of design, roughly half the size of what the ev